Virtual invasion of Afghanistan
The Afghan diaspora of the northern capital supported Putin in his criticism of official Kabul “The attitude towards Afghans was much more humane when Soviet troops were in Afghanistan,” says the president of the Afghan Diaspora of St. Petersburg, Dr. Abdul Khalil Abasi. “Today you drive around the republic and remember that this bread factory, hospital, tunnel, or this road connecting Kabul with the Northern Alliance were built by the Russians.